Overall, about 40 percent of U.S. Catholics are Hispanic, according to the survey.

Those whose children remain practicing Catholics have some ideas about why that may be the case, but they, too, are well aware that things could easily have turned out differently.

Twenty-five percent told us that one or more of their children had left the church.

That is what the show is really about: Having been raised Catholic, how has that affected your creative development?

Mary Karr delivers many truths that you need to hear.